Brooder



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J. L. NIX.

BRUODER.

Patented Jan. l, 1895.

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BROODER.

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Unirse STATES PATENT Brion.

JAMES Il. NIX, OF HOMER CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

BROODER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 531,694, dated January1, 1 89 5.

Application filed September 23,1893. Serial No. 486,297. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, JAMES L. NIX, of Homer City, Indiana county,Pennsylvania, have lnade a new and useful Improvement in Broeders, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a broeder which shall possesssuperior advantages with respect to efficiency in use, and it consistsin the novel construction and cornhination of parts hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a vertical section of thebroeder the section being taken on the line l-l of Fig. 2 which in turnis a horizontal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3, aview ofeither the front or rear wall of the broeder; and Figs. 4. and 5,respectively an end elevation and a top View of said Wall; Fig. 6, aninside elevation of one of the side walls of the broeder, and Fig. 7 atop view thereof. Fig. 8 is a vertical section of the roof, its twoslopes being detached from each other; Fig. 9, a front elevation of thebroeder; Fig. 10, a vertical section on the line lO-IO of Fig. 2, andFig. 1l a vertical section on the line Ill-l1 of Fig. l.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

The construction under consideration, generally considered,has fourwalls, a floor, and a roof.

A represents what maybe termed thefront wall; B, the opposite or rearwall; C, the left hand side wall; D, the right-hand side wall; E, thefloor, and F the roof. The walls are detachably united by means offastenings such as the hooks G and pins g. The hooks are attached, sayto the front and rear Walls, and the pins are held in the edges of theadjoining walls, and the relative construction of the walls is such asto permit of the hooks being placed in engagement with the pins, and thewalls thereby fastened together.

As the preferred construction in the respect mentioned the front andrear walls, at each end thereof, are each provided with a rabbeted cleata, and the side walls, at each end thereof, are each provided with arabbeted cleat c. The cleats, a and c, at each corner of thebrooder, aremade to interlt substantially as shown, and there is aslot, c', in eachcleat c, to receive the point of the hook G, and the pin g passesthrough both of the cleats e, c, and when the Walls are thus connectedthey are tied and braced against lat-eral strains. The walls, toward thelower edge thereof, are each provided with a shoulder, preferably in theform of a cleat b, which, when the walls and door are joined, rests uponthe floor and the walls are thereby upheld, and the wall edge, b', belowthe shoulder cornes sidewise lagainst the edge of the door and the wallsare thus kept laterally in place with reference to the door.

The room, II, inclosed by the described door and walls is preferablyraised by means of a foundation composed preferably of the walls I whichare suitably united. One, I', of the walls is set in as shown to provideready access to the hot Water heater presently described. The portion, eof the door is preferably made vertically adjustable, substantially asis indicated by the different positions of the floor shown respectivelyin the full and in the broken lines. In Fig. 10 a convenient mode ofcarrying out this feature of the improvement is shown.

e', e', e', are removable blocks inserted in the back wall I, of thefoundation, and the inner edge of the door e can be dropped to rest uponeither of said blocks as desired, or a single set of said blocks may beused which can be inserted in the wall I at the desired height therein.The back wall B is usually a closed one as shown. The front wall A mayhave Windows such as shown at d', and whichmay be hinged at n.2 to beopened and closed asindicated in Fig. l, and it has a door, a3, whichcan be swung as indicated in Fig. 2, to open and close the room H whendesired.

The roof, F, is made in the form of two sloping parts f, f', which areconnected with the walls of the structure as follows: The part f, whichis preferably of sheet metal is provided on its under side with purlinsf2 and f3. The purlin f2 is arranged near the lower edge of theroof-part f and in conjunction with the cleat f 4 upon the rear wall,forms a groove to receive the upper edge of the rear wall substantiallyas shown in Fig. l. The roof-part f '--also has purlins f5, f6 and f7.The purlin f5, jointly with the cleat fs upon the front-Wall forms agroove to receive the upper edge of the front wall, and the purlin f,jointly with the purlin f3, occupies a notch, fg, in the rafters flo ofthe roof.

In applying the roof to the walls the roofpartf is dropped into itsplace first and then the other roof-partf is dropped into its position,and in so doing the folded fiange j11 upon the part fbecomes interlockedwith the ange f12 upon the part f', or substantially as shown in Fig. l.In this manner it will be seen the various parts which form the shell ofthe structure can be united to form a suitable inclosure for the purposein question, and when it is desired to ship the structure its roof,Walls and floor, and also the foundation, can be taken apart to beformed into a more compact package.

H represents a curtained inclosure for the chickens to go into. Itoccupies more or less of the brooding chamber H, and it is warmeddirectly by means of the coil J which is preferably a part of a hotwater heating apparatus whose boiler is shown atj. The preferable meansfor heating the boiler is a lamp K and the heating apparatus preferablyincludes a hot air chamber L which rises into the chamber H. The lamprests in the lower part of said hot air chamber and the heat of the lampis applied directly to the boiler, which is preferably of the invertedcup-shape shown, and thence the heat rises above the boiler into theupper part of the chamber L and ultimately into the escape ilue Z, whichextends upward through the roof F. The chamber L is preferably made lintwo parts, va lower part Z', which is attached to the floor E, and anupper part Z2 which is slipped from above onto the lower part Z. TheescapeZ preferably extends downward into the chamber L, substantially asshown, and said extension Z2 is, together with the chamber itself,detachable from the escape Z. This enables the parts of the chamber L tobe separated from each other. In this manner the heat of the lamp isapplied in two Ways to the chamber H, namely: by means of the hot waterheating apparatus, and by means of the chamber L. The Water supply inthe boiler is maintained by means of the rising pipe j and 'thehopperjz. The coil is connected with the boiler at dierent levels,substantially as shown to provide for the proper circulation of thewater through the apparatus.

M represents a ventilation-opening in the wall of the chamber H.

By making the floor of the brooding chamber vertically adjustablesubstantially as described additional room can be provided from time totime for the chickens as they enlarge in size.

N represents a step leading to the brooding chamber. A

A convenient way of forming the inclosu re I1 is to utilize the coil Jas a support for the inclosure-top h, and attach a curtain h to the toph as shown.

I claim- The brooder comprising the closure, the cylinder or chamberconsisting of the lower section fixed to, and extending above and below,the floor of the closure and the upper, main section having its loweredge compassing the upper edge of the lower section and having a centralpendent tube therein, a combustion outlet pipe forming an extension ofsaid pendent tube, au inverted cup-shaped boiler arranged in the upperpart of said lower section and having connected thereto near its lowerend, an elbow-pipe, an elevated automatic water-feeding tank, orreservoir with its vertical feed-pipe connecting with said elbow-pipe 0fthe boiler, a heating pipe coil having V,connection with the upper partof said boiler and connection with the lower end of said verticalfeed-pipe of the water-tank, a curtained compartment or chamber, withits top resting upon said pipe-coil, and a heater below said boiler,substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 13th day of September, 1893,

JAMES L. NIX.

Witnesses:

J. T. DOUGHERTY, H. S. THOMPSON.

